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A bag contains yellow marbles and red marbles, 27 in total. The number of yellow marbles is 3 less than 4 times the number of red marbles. How many yellow marbles are there?
3 years ago

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Answered by mathhelper
reds --- x
yellows -- 4x - 3

x + 4x - 3 = 27

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3 years ago

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